Mother: “Bobbie, how many sisters has your new schoolfellow?”
Bobbie: “He has one, mamma. He tried to make me believe he had two half-sisters, but he doesn’t know that I’m studying fractions.”
[A RAISED FLOWER-BED.]
FIG. 1.
One of the ancient trees upon my lawn having fallen into a dying condition, I was reluctantly compelled to give an order for its removal.
I was sorry to part with an old favourite, and also I was a little puzzled as to how the great bare place left by its wide-spreading branches was to be filled up. At last an inspiration came, “We will have a raised bed of flowers and shrubs!”